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Original Title:	Soulless
ISBN:	0316056634 (ISBN13: 9780316056632)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Parasol Protectorate #1
Characters:	Alexia Tarabotti, Lord Akeldama, Ivy Hisselpenny, Professor Randolph Lyall, Lord Maccon, Floote, Ormond Tunstell
Setting:	London, England,1873
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2010), Compton Crook Award Nominee (2010), Prix Julia Verlanger (2013), ALA Alex Award (2010)

Soulless (Parasol Protectorate #1) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 357 pages

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Title	:	Soulless (Parasol Protectorate #1)
Author	:	Gail Carriger
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 357 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2009 by Orbit
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Steampunk. Fantasy. Romance. Paranormal. Vampires. Urban Fantasy. Fiction

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Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire--and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?

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My apologies to all my friends who love this book, but again, I fail to understand the appeal. Like with a few other popular novels I've tried reading recently, this is simply a glorified fanfiction in print. If you ever ask me what I mean calling books "fanfiction," my answer would be, as with the definition of "porn," I can't articulate it, but I know when I see/read it. It's just too gratuitous and lacks substance, depth, flavor, richness, even though it, at times, entertains.

Well, this was fun! Their love story started with a hedgehog...Well, Conall is not a kitty, but if the shoe fits... LMAOOOAlso Alexia is not a delicate flower! And she's aboundately able to deal with an ornery werewolf!Who becomes a kitty when she lays her preternatual hands on him! Horny, maybe, but definitvely not ornery! A really fun book! Not to be taken seriously, but very enjoyable!

★★★★½ Soulless is my first foray into the world of steampunk. Well, other than the writings of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, read to me by my adventurous mother.Dirigable from Ms. Carrigers website.I will be honest and say I just didnt see the appeal until somewhere around the middle of the third chapter. Maybe I was too focused on figuring out the subtle world building to sit back and enjoy the ride until then. (Unsure what a claviger, drone, or dewan was, I do still wish there had been a

Rbrs #4Remember in grade school, when the teacher would ask for a volunteer to give the first speech or present the first diorama or whatever? Public Speaking - that which is feared more than death. Comparisons were always inevitable. I learned to shoot that hand up like a game of "not-it," so that everyone would be compared to me but my stuff would gently fade in the mob memory. Also, to get it out of the way so then I could relax while everyone else sweated it and got ever more anxious. Soooo,

I wish I had written this book! Only because it combines two of my latest fetishes: Corsets and Paranormal creatures. After the first chapter this book is pretty good, I really enjoyed it (although it's not reinventing the wheel in any way). Nice romance, appealing characters, melding of the two genres was enough to keep my very entertained and up late! I will read another for sure!

Well, the first thing I can tell you is that reading this from a critical, review-writing frame of mind is not the way to enjoy it. I encountered this book when it first came out, lying on the new release table of the Union Square Barnes & Noble (that's San Francisco, not NY, B&N friends). I no longer live in the City and was visiting a friend who, as it turned out, wasn't home yet. Or answering her phone. Night was falling and I had no way of knowing how much time I would have to kill.

Here is a most edifying (and highly scientific) quiz you may use to ascertain whether this novel is one that you will enjoy.* Is your bookcase overflowing with strong, decisive heroines?* Do you chuckle over the animated Gorey titles preceding a PBS Mystery! presentation?* Are you fond of the Victorian era?* Does witty prose make you positively giddy with excitement?* Have you ever lingered over a bit of lace or wistfully touched a velvet coat?* Are you delighted when someone brews a pot of tea?